It was the kind of match Spain have learned to survive rather than dominate. England held the lead at the break, and any other team trailing at Wembley with that deficit might have folded quietly. Spain found a different gear. Substitutes Álex Baena and Mikel Oyarzabal scored in the second half to turn the result around — two players who came off the bench to settle what the starters could not.
The number worth sitting with is 39. An unbeaten run of that length stops being a streak and becomes a standard, one that generates its own pressure. Every game is a test of whether the mechanism still works, and at half-time at Wembley, the answer looked uncertain.
What the France24 report does not resolve is how much of this was England's failure to close a match they were winning, and how much was Spain's structural ability to absorb pressure and then accelerate. The substitutions suggest the coaching staff read the moment accurately. Whether England read it at all is the question their own camp will be answering.
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